Paula Prentiss
Biography
Paula Prentiss, born in San Antonio, Texas, is an American actress who studied drama at Northwestern University after transferring from Randolph-Macon Women's College and was discovered there by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which offered her a film contract. She became a star as Tuggle in Where the Boys Are (1960), and MGM paired her with Jim Hutton again in The Honeymoon Machine (1961) and Bachelor in Paradise (1961). Howard Hawks cast her opposite Rock Hudson in Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), and she appeared in The World of Henry Orient (1964), In Harm's Way (1965), and What's New Pussycat? (1965). She co-starred in the CBS sitcom He & She, earning an Emmy nomination, and later took roles in Catch-22 (1970), Move (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975). Her later credits include The Black Marble (1980), Buddy Buddy (1981), and a return to features with I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016).
88years old
Turns 89 on March 4in 142 days
- Born San Antonio
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Paula Ragusa (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 56 years1960 to 2016
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Big break
Howard Hawks gave Prentiss the female lead in Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), opposite Rock Hudson at Universal, her first movie outside MGM. Hawks said she was good but forgot from one shot to the next what she was doing, so her shots never matched.
A first
Prentiss returned to feature films in 2016 after more than 30 years away, except for brief cameos, in the horror film I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, directed by Oz Perkins.
Paula Prentiss movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jim Hutton appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Jim Hutton's page
Bess Flowers's page
Bob Balaban's page
Peter Sellers's page
John McGiver's page
Patrick O'Neal's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Richard BenjaminSaturday the 14th (1981) and Catch-22 (1970)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Paula Prentiss's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$83.6 million
9 of the 17 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 17 films: 9 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 5 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 5Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 97% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$25M29.8% of the total
- 2$19M22.5% of the total
- 3$9.0M10.8% of the total
- 4$8.7M10.4% of the total
- 5$7.3M8.7% of the total
- 6$6.0M7.2% of the total
- 7$3.5M4.2% of the total
- 8$2.9M3.5% of the total
$2.5 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 3% of the total
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